A 1927 German article by Dipl. Ing. Roßmann on the sorting of rags as raw material for shoddy (Kunstwolle) production. It reports time-and-motion studies in the rag-sorting rooms of large cloth factories, covering the sorting table layout, worker fatigue, dust and extraction, and the 25 sorts of 'Neutuch' clippings with their percentages. Two experimental workspace arrangements are compared by effective sorting time and pieces sorted per two minutes, concluding that open, individual work places and less material transport raise output. The article ends with 'Fortsetzung folgt' (to be continued).